Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare chaired a high-level meeting on attaining targeted Health goals in the first 100 days of formation of new Government, with senior officials of the Union Health Ministry, here today. He was joined by Smt. Anupriya Patel and Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao, Union Ministers of State for Health and Family Welfare.

Taking stock of the overview of Ministry’s functioning, the Hon’ble Minister directed that emphasis should be given to quality of health facilities and health systems. He laid stress upon expansion of health assurance coverage under the AB PMJAY and leveraging technology in programmes like immunisation and health emergency response management . The Hon’ble Minister expressed his concern about growing incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases and the importance of awareness regarding healthy diet and lifestyle. The Union Health Minister highlighted the need for targeted campaigns towards the youth for tobacco control. He emphasized on the need for creating awareness on NCDs and harmful effects of tobacco in scientific as well as in simple language for the common man to understand.

Shri Apurva Chandra, Union Health Secretary; Shri G Kamala Vardhana Rao, CEO, FSSAI; Ms. Deepti Gaur Mukherjee, CEO, NHA and other senior officials of the Union Health Ministry were present in the meeting.